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Thoughts on putting the comment box at the beginning of Tildes threads?
It's a slight inconvenience to have to scroll past dozens of comments just to reply to the thread. What do you guys think? Does having the ability to quickly jump into the conversation stifle discussion? I can see if some people feel that it should be necessary to read a more posts before posting in the thread, but I also think that a lot of people will just hit the END key or scroll past comments without really paying attention to them (if they just want to quickly reply).
this is going to keep coming up without a search feature -_-
This is by design. It's one more step to snap replies.
don't worry, it'll keep coming up even with a search feature, we need a way of notifying users of potential duplicate content more than we need free-form search imho.
This could be a culture thing as well. The need to get your idea to the eyes of others, vs seeing if it's already been discussed.
If "your idea" is already out there, is it really "your" idea?
If you come up with an idea independently, it is your idea. It may not be uniquely your idea, but it is your idea.
true, but how would you define "independently"? Can an idea really be "yours"? Or is it the product of your environment / specific stimulis such that even without being exposed to the idea, you followed the original poster's footsteps?
Independently, as in without the help of another person who already has the idea. Perhaps independent of others who already have had the idea is a better way of phrasing it than independently.
In this case, I can defining an idea as "yours" inclusively, not exclusively. It is not necessarily "yours" in the sense of property, but it is "yours" because you reached the conclusion, not someone else. One could argue that no thought is original and people's actions are predetermined by their environment, but at this point the concept of an idea itself becomes moot.
Well you can still define an "idea" as the result of a specific set of environmental conditions on the human mind ;)
If you defined an idea as the result of a specific set of environmental conditions on the human mind, I would agree that no one could have possession of an idea. That definition puts ideas largely up to happenstance, and gives little to no weight to the human's ability to think and come up with an idea themselves.
It'll keep coming up regardless of a search function.
Reddit is proof of that.
tl;dr it gets brought up all the time, it's a conscious design choice to incentivize users to partecipate in discussions already happening rather than immediately post their own top-level comment
It appears to be an Italian word, but no, it isn't English.
When I google that spelling no English version comes up. But an Italian entry in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/partecipate comes up, which is a bit confusing. I do see some uses of that, but usually in the context of translated Italian. So I do not believe there is any real English version with that spelling.
It's better to have some people jumping straight to the bottom of the page then have everyone have the box right there at the top.
It's a simple fact that with the box at the bottom more people will read comments before posting than with the box at the top.
The fact that it doesn't work perfectly in all cases is just not a good argument.
I hope it stays at the bottom. This will increase the chances of someone realizing they are about to post duplicate content. Or, at least content that belongs as part of the thread above. It took me a little while to like this. I thought it was bad UX at first to have to scroll, but it makes a ton of sense.
I’m not sure if it’s possible but a floating Plus (perhaps a ~) and a next parent button (⇊)would be great